Disaster Prediction Response and Recovery (DisPRR) Australia coming to the RESCUE

1. Disaster Prediction Response and Recovery (DisPRR) Australia coming to the RESCUE J. Chris Scott Director, Queensland Laboratory NICTA (National ICT Australia)

2. Outline of Talk National ICT Australia (NICTA) background NICTA Program Overview NICTA/Queensland State Government collaboration: Safeguarding Australia • • • Engagement with State Government agencies Initial NICTA Queensland Research Activity • • Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery (DisPRR) DisPRR Research Activity overview The Smart Sensors Work Package Demonstrator Program Collaboration • • • •

3. NICTA Background Commonwealth and State Government funded R&D centre of excellence in Information and Communications Technology Laboratories in Sydney (UNSW and ATP), Canberra, Melbourne, and Brisbane employing approx 300 researchers in specialised ICT areas. Initially 2 partner Universities – now 7 Combination of strategic Programs focused on more Fundamental Research AND tactical Projects aimed at delivering outcomes to current user requirements In addition to Research NICTA focuses on Education and Commercialisation NICTA Queensland is focusing on: • • • • • • Safeguarding Australia

4. NICTA Programs • Formal Methods • Multimedia and Visual Communications • Autonomous Systems and Sensor Technology • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning • Statistical Machine Learning • Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition • Logic and Computation • Systems Engineering and Complex Systems • Networks and Pervasive Computing • Wireless Signal Processing • Embedded, Real-time, and Operating Systems

5. NICTA PhD Program • Building on traditional education programs • Generating human capital for ICT research and development, of the highest international standards • Value-added degree programs within universities • Enriching the education experience to enhance Australia’s economy

6. NICTA’s Network VC’s Australian Research Community Industry Development Entrepreneurs in Residence Industry forums VC Networking Collaborative Projects Fellows Exhibitions & Sponsorships Outlook Conference Industry networking Breakout days International Research Community General Public Members Technical Conferences International Visitors Collaboration Media – “Imagination Driving Australia’s ICT Future” Conduits to the greater community

7. NICTA Queensland Collaboration between NICTA and Queensland State Government involving 3 Queensland Universities. Initial Program of Research involves commitments of A$14M (US$11M) over 3 years NICTA Queensland staffing will be more than 50 researchers and students by Q1 2006 - 15 full time, 24 contributed, 14 students Commitment from Queensland State Government to provide ‘user’ drivers addressing a specific need in the general area of e-security – including issues relating to both natural and man made disasters . NICTA Queensland commenced operations in January 2005 and has funding for an initial period of 3 years – expected to be extended. • • • • •

8. Engagement with Qld State Government Agencies Initial focus on establishing priorities from a State Government perspective Meetings with Agencies including; Department of Emergency Services Police Services Information Queensland State Development and Innovation Department of Premier and Cabinet to extract key issues facing these organisations Matched with the capabilities of our three Universities; Griffith Uni, Queensland University of Technology and University of Queensland Result is a program of R&D in the area of; Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery • • • •

9. Disaster Prediction, Response, and Recovery Research program Trusted and secure systems Modeling and information processing Data processing at source Source of data Human factors Threat assessment by classifying human behaviours. Understand organisational, social, cognitive and perceptual factors affecting the human response Sensors, surveillance cameras, historical data, remotely sensed data Devices as autonomous agents – video/audio data processing, incident classification Relationships and dependencies in over constrained systems. Issue of ‘trust’ in decision support. Data fusion Trusted computing base for low cost microprocessor based devices, high assurance end-to-end secure dynamic reconfigurable network

10. WP2 Information and Human Behaviour • Information Management including modeling, representation, and integrating information and situations from multiple sources into a cohesive framework to support decision making • Investigate issues related to human-system integration for disaster prevention, response and recovery, focusing on eliciting and modeling the role and information needs of human responders • Observation and modeling of human behaviours to enable algorithm development for implementation in WP1 • Tasks – Scenario Requirements – Formal Representation of Information – Formal Representation of Human Activities – Information Integration – Decision Making Framework – Information Framework & Architecture – Abnormal Human Behaviour classification – Usability Studies Rivers Flooded Power Out Dam Overflow Airport Closed (CI) Rescue Services Evacuations Level 0/1 - Data/Object Sources Level 2 - Situational Awareness Level 3 - Threat/Impact Assessment

11. WP3 Modeling & Agents • This research addresses the formal modeling and understanding of dynamically changing environments in emergency and disaster services • The aim is to formally represent and effectively reason about real-world situations that involve over-constrained resources, risk factors, and real- time decision making • The focus on trustworthiness will provide coherence for cutting-edge research on logic-based knowledge representation, constraints, spatial and temporal reasoning and search • Tasks – Solving Decision Problems – Representation and Reasoning with Ontologies – Reasoning with spatial-temporal information – Handling Over-Constrained Problems

12. WP4 Trusted Systems • This research will determine solutions for trusted computing bases to support reliable and secure management of response systems charged with the protection of critical data • This will address the needs of higher layers of an information and data network system where such systems are to be used in emergency response, critical infrastructure and national information infrastructure protection • Tasks – Software development components in a high trust/embedded system – Security/trust factors in embedded/microkernel systems – Cryptography integration into embedded kernels – Impact on Performance of security functions – Trusted “pathways “ in embedded systems – Safety against attack

13. WP5 Secure and Autonomic Networks • Research will be undertaken into, and develop prototype structures for, high assurance end-to-end secure emergency response information services within a critical infrastructure environment with an emphasis on the necessary network components, context management, and autonomic networks • This research will also consider dynamic monitoring and reconfiguration of networks and methods to identify the disaster/attack impact zone based on monitoring and context information • Tasks – Modeling of context information – Scalable and resilient management of context information – Autonomic network/communication reconfiguration – System/application monitoring – Secure & dynamic wireless communications – Trust & Policy • Dynamic self-reconfiguration of network to achieve optimum level of communication in spite of failure/attack • Identification of failure/attack impact zone on network/system

14. WP1 Smart Sensors Sensors for early warning and post incident response • – Smart networked surveillance cameras – Distributed strain sensing for structural damage assessment – Personnel location and tracking – Network monitoring

15. Smart networked surveillance cameras Multi resolution high speed digital camera architectures and a platform using FPGA system on a chip technology Fibre based acoustic detection arrays – robust acoustic event recognition Embedded software enabling cooperative sensor function and operation as autonomous agent in a network of devices Platform for assessing real-time algorithms for face and character (number plate) recognition – using the best algorithms available. 3D models from WP2 to assess behaviour – and identify possible threats Rapid searching of realtime and archived events • • • • • •

16. Fibre Bragg Gratings for distributed and point strain sensing • Together with Industry partner (Redfern Optical Components) develop high precision broad band strain gauges for structural stress monitoring. • Fibre Bragg Gratings for point and integrated strain measurement n, core z

17. Distributed strain sensing for structural damage assessment Sr St Si Unappodised uniform grating 1 Si Sr St 0.8 Reflectance ratio 0.6 0.4 0.2    0 1541 1541.5 1542 1542.5 1543 1543.5 1544 Wavelength (nm) Fibre Bragg grating structures for; Multi-axis strain and temperature sensing along an optical fibre Distributed strain and temperature White Light Source  e2 e3 e4 en e1 Ultra thin fibre sensing array Strain demodulator Laser Coupler  e1 e2 e3 e4 ..en Detector FBG Filter Point strain and temperature Optical fibre in structure to be measured – many km’s

18. Other Sensors within WP1 Personnel location and tracking under emergency conditions • Tracking emergency services personnel in hostile environments • Extension of existing Emergency communication equipment for location function • Ultra wideband wireless and • Location based services (E-LBS) are being assessed • Integrated with GPS referenced base stations Network monitoring for impact assessment • Monitor network elements to asses functionality • Monitor network applications response • Map extent of physical effect of incident

19. Demonstrator DisPRR will demonstrate prototype systems, bringing together various components from the R&D program to demonstrate key developments in a yet to be determined significant area of application. NICTA is working with its stakeholders to identify demonstrator applications that will utilise successful outcomes from the Project Discussions with various Queensland Gov Agencies are currently underway to identify a demonstrator application initial focus NICTA is following with interest RESCUE’s Testbed Program; Transportation, CAMAS, and GLQ, and is interested in collaborating in at least one of these • • • •

20. Collaboration • NICTA’s mission includes: being a world class R&D organisation – with a focus on user inspired outcomes – for Safeguarding Australia Collaboration with experts worldwide will enable DisPRR to deliver better outcomes sooner to benefit all our stakeholders NICTA is interested in collaborating with RESCUE because: – Our two projects are very similar in objective and execution – RESCUE has been operating longer than DisPRR and is further advanced – RESCUE, through recent natural disasters, has access to data which would be invaluable to DisPRR – Queensland’s natural threats are similar to the more recent US events – • • – Australia’s manmade threats are similar to those of the US – We believe DisPRR may have components of value to RESCUE

21. Contacts – NICTA Queensland Dr J. Chris Scott chris.scott@nicta.com.au – DisPRR Program Dr Renato Iannella renato@nicta.com.au – Smart Sensors Prof Brian Lovell brian.lovell@nicta.com.au – Modeling and Agents Prof Abdul Sattar abdul.sattar@nicta.com.au – Trusted Systems Prof Bill Caelli bill.caelli@nicta.com.au – Secure and Autonomic Networks Prof Peter Croll Ass. Prof Jaga Indulska peter.croll@nicta.com.au jaga.indulska@nicta.com.,au – Information and Human Behaviour Prof Penny Sanderson Dr Renato Iannella penny.sanderson@nicta.com.au renato@nicta.com.au